Posted: Wed 04 May 2011, 19:38 Post subject:
Kernel TestingSubject description: a place for testing new kernels in Puppy...

Hello,
A lot of development is occurring in the Puppy world...
New kernels are being "petted up" for use with the Woof build system...
I figure a central location for testing them is in order...
Till now the EZWoof thread, and the IcePuppy thread have been the only place to post these...
So I`ll kick it off...

I`m guessing this thread could fill up with new pups for testing quickly, as EZWoof makes this sort of testing really easy...Some of the newer kernels have some really exciting possibilities....._________________Close the Windows, and open your eyes, to a whole new world
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Barry keeps patch sets for each kernel that he builds... comes in really handy in case others want to do a rebuild-fix. A tarball of the patches should be small enough to post here. (i'd like the 2.6.38 patches to build on if someone has them)_________________Web Programming - Pet Packaging 100 & 101

Giving your 529-2.6.38.4 a quick run live pfix=ram on my main Linux box. Other than the expected "no sound" things appear to be working well. Display (1440x900) and internet working fine. Tried your alsa fix, no help here but I'll try the next release.

Attempted to watch a Youtube video fullscreen....didn't crash X here but got a solid white screen and Firefox crashed. Just restarted FF and went on.

191mb....47mb of that is the screensaver, which I will leave out of my next build, which I will shrink as much as I can...
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Hello,
During the build, I went into sandbox3/rootfscomplete/etc/initd and erased "alsa" then put the alsamixer-fix script in /root/Startup...
I have not run alsa setup, just using the OOTB sound and retrovol...
I do wish I had left the 47mb of screensavers out...
But they all work, glx included...
This build scores about 200fps faster than most Pups at glxgears OOTB...
Well, of to work....be back later...
Jay...
@EDIT:
5.39 has xcompmgr built it...
For those wishing to enable compositing transparency, and fading in and out of windows in 5.39...

1. Add the Section/EndSection below to your xorg.conf (at the end of it works)

Quote:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

2. Add this to .xinitrc before "rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin"

191mb....47mb of that is the screensaver, which I will leave out of my next build, which I will shrink as much as I can...
Jay...

thank you very much. This is a masterpiece. I think this is the kind of news that everyone in the 525 world wanted to hear. I know that the ICE world has been following this news and evelopment.

Your efforts now makes the "PUP525" variants of Puppy capable of running on every PC with 512+ RAM, from Pentium II to present day processors using this single PUP539. A breakthru for PUP525 users.

I have 3 machines that have SCSI drives, so this approach covers my ATA, SATA, and SCSI hardware that sit in my collection. This one distro will cover all machines in the arsenal. (I've always wondered why pulling out SCSI drivers was ever viewed as an accomplishment before as they had no operational impact when system is running? Even though it is not, I think someone called it bloat, thus killed it! But ... .)

The 47MB that you mention only affects download. There is NO 47MB bump in the running system.

If I were racing the old PUP525 against this on a 512MB RAMs, this, not only, appears to beat 525, but "laps" it, as well. This investigation and the resulting effort should make all of us proud of your contribution and you.._________________Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs!
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Hello,
@gcmartin,
Thank you...But it is all about Puppy...
I am all for the minimalistic approach, but if you are going to go that way, then go the other way as well..
New kernels bring new functions and abilities to Puppy that need to be experimented with....
No, these new test releases probably are not "stable" as of yet...(Although IcePuppy `006 has, with the 2.6.38.4 kernel, been VERY stable, dare I say "rock solid", for me...)
And so far, so has 5.39...

As for my 2.6.38.4 T2 build....semi success...
I have a running desktop, partly functional...very orange...LOL
Apparently dbus failed inbuild...
I did get a functional desktop....
But no net/multimedia/Firefox/etc...as of yet...

But at 81 mb...it is a good start....
After I get T2 working, I hope to get Arch Woofed....
Gotta find out their repo url....
Did an archpup about 2 years ago, (whenever Woof first hit the scene), but it was only semi functional..
However, the repo worked, at least I think...
I was able to D/L Firefox 2.0.12 from the arch repos, and it installed...but it wouldnt run, from xulrunner errors..
Dbus seems to be the stumbling block, for me at least...

PS...try enabling composite as per the above instructions..
Let me know your results...
I`m considering enabling it as default at boot...
The fading in and out and transparency look awesome...
And those who know me know "eye candy", as long as it is functional, is great by me...
P.A.W had composite and fading in and out 2 years ago...

"Bleeding edge".....yea....lets go there....

@ personal snivel...
Why has X-Toys not made it into the PPM yet... LOL
MultiPup is still rough around the edges...but X-Toys is too cute to leave out...And as soon as pupxscreensaver 5.13 is perfected, it should be available as well...
Who decides this stuff anyhow???....
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The sound icon on the tray should probably be removed or should be upgraded to launch retrovol or there should be a Menu > Multimedia > Sound (Retrovol) with instructions to 'UnMute" As you and everyone is aware, opening a Terminal and typing "retrovol" allows the user to "Unmute" the system sound.

This ISO works on 4 PCs/laptop with 1-2GB RAM; the reports are similar to those from ICE testings done previously. Fast on each's desktop without ANY hiccups. Great work for PUP525 community.

Hope this helps
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puppyluvr:
Just checked 539 looks good so far, I did find this aside from the sound thing.
Could not mount cd data disk in either drive, in the three desktop machines I tried. However it would mount cd's with iso's?

I only included the intel high performance drivers...
I only have one machine up ATM..
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Running 539 live pfix=ram on my main Linux box.Initial boot had the correct screen resolution(1440x900) but no internet or sound.Running Network Wizard and unmuting the sound took care of those two things.

These drivers are big.... I only want to build in the most needed...dont want a 300mb pup..LOL.._________________Close the Windows, and open your eyes, to a whole new world
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